I’m pleased to announce that the Australian popular science magazine COSMOS includes my story “Empathy” in the current issue.

COSMOS has already published fellow squid Robert Hood, and you can read Rob’s story “Cross-currents” online via the COSMOS fiction archive along with stories by Charles Stross, Gregory Benford, Paul di Filippo, Joe Haldeman and others. “Empathy” should be online in the next few weeks as the magazine rolls over to the next issue, but I strongly encourage readers to buy the magazine. Apart from having a hard copy on high-quality paper, COSMOS is an excellent magazine all round. I think it fills a very interesting niche that I can’t quite describe yet, somewhere between New Scientist and National Geographic in tone, but unlike either one, and it is one of the very few journals in Australia (or indeed the world nowadays) that gives a lot of space to strong feature articles. I can’t recommend it highly enough.